Of the Night

"Of the Night" is a mash up of two 1990s Eurodance songs, the 1993 hit "The Rhythm of the Night" by Italian act Corona and the 1992 hit "Rhythm Is a Dancer" by German group Snap!.{{cite web |url=http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/bastille-unveil-of-the-night-music-video-corona-snap-rhythm-dancer-mash-up |title=Bastille unveil 'Of the Night' music video |publisher=Click Music |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=14 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133548/http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/bastille-unveil-of-the-night-music-video-corona-snap-rhythm-dancer-mash-up |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.idolator.com/7488289/bastille-of-the-night-corona-snap-video |title=Bastille Mash Two '90s Dance Classics On "Of The Night": Watch The Crime-Filled Video |publisher=Idolator |first=Mike |last=Wass |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=14 October 2013}} The song was first featured on Bastille's mixtape Other People's Heartache, which was released in 2012 as a free download.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/13/bastille-review|title=Bastille – review|work=The Guardian|first=Dave|last=Simpson|date=13 March 2013|access-date=14 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Bastille/Other+People's+Heartache|title=Other People's Heartache – Bastille|publisher=Last.fm|access-date=14 October 2013}}

{{cquote|That's a strange one. It's kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing that we did that kind of got out of hand. It started because Dan [Smith] got really ill when we first got signed, and so to ease his way back into vocal recording we decided to do some mixtapes using old songs that we listened to growing up. These were interesting songs you wouldn't expect us to cover and try to reinvent in a more current kind of way, and then it became one of our biggest songs. Then we started doing it live just because it was a cool song and was fun to play, and audiences started to really kind of dig it. And it all started like a little experiment."

| author = Will Farquarson, talking about "Of the Night"{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5876951/bastille-working-on-sophomore-album-in-between-tour-dates |title=Bastille Working On Sophomore Album In Between Tour Dates |first=Gary |last=Graff |magazine=Billboard |date=20 January 2014 |access-date=26 January 2014}}

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"Of the Night" was later used in a promotional trailer for the eighth series of ITV's Dancing on Ice in January 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/listen-bastilles-of-the-night-mixes-snap-and-corona |title=Listen: Bastille's 'Of the Night' mixes Snap and Corona |publisher=Click Music |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=14 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130238/http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/listen-bastilles-of-the-night-mixes-snap-and-corona |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2012/12/itv1-dancing-on-ice-2013/ |title=ITV1 – Dancing On Ice 2013|publisher=tvadmusic.co.uk|date=26 December 2012 |access-date=14 October 2013}} It received its first radio play on Huw Stephens' BBC Radio 1 show on 9 October 2013,{{cite web|url=http://nessymon.com/bastille-of-the-night-video/|title=Bastille: Of The Night (Video)|publisher=nessymon.com|date=9 October 2013|access-date=14 October 2013|archive-date=17 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017183112/http://nessymon.com/bastille-of-the-night-video/|url-status=dead}} and was released digitally on 11 October 2013.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/of-the-night-single/1444880747 |title=Of the Night - Single by Bastille |publisher=iTunes |access-date=14 October 2013}} On 15 November 2013, Of the Night EP was released, featuring three remixes of the song and a live recording of "Oblivion".

Paul Leake of Click Music gave the track five out of five stars, and called it "one of the most inspired covers ever made," adding that it evokes "doe-eyed nostalgia for the purity of 90s' dance music" and "modulates between the sombre heartbreak and quiet intensity."{{cite web |url=http://www.clickmusic.com/singles/article/bastille-of-the-night-single-review |title=Bastille: 'Of the Night' review |first=Paul |last=Leake |publisher=Click Music |access-date=14 October 2013 |archive-date=5 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405142412/http://www.clickmusic.com/singles/article/bastille-of-the-night-single-review |url-status=dead }}

Digital Spy's Robert Copsey wrote, "On paper, Dan Smith & Co.'s gloomy, atmospheric re-working sounds like career-suicide, and while it certainly isn't that, by opting for such a daring choice it feels like all their hard work at carefully carving out their own niche has come undone."{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/review/a531554/bastille-of-the-night-single-review.html |title=Bastille: 'Of The Night' - Single review |first=Robert |last=Copsey |website=Digital Spy |date=15 November 2013 |access-date=24 November 2013}}

While set to become the band's first number one single at the midweek stage, the song debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart, selling 80,257 copies in its first week,{{cite news|url=http://www.musicweek.com/businessanalysis/read/official-charts-analysis-robbie-lp-sells-108k-to-claim-uk-s-1-000th-official-no-1/056846|title=Official Charts Analysis: Robbie LP sells 108k to claim UK's 1,000th Official No.1|last=Jones|first=Alan|date=25 November 2013|work=Music Week|publisher=Intent Media|access-date=23 November 2015|url-access=subscription }} only 660 copies less than Lily Allen's version of "Somewhere Only We Know", becoming the narrowest chart race of 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lily-allen-beats-bastille-and-gary-barlow-to-number-1-in-closest-chart-race-of-the-year-2631/ |title=Lily Allen beats Bastille and Gary Barlow to Number 1 in closest chart race of the year! |publisher=Official Charts Company |first=Daniel |last=Lane |date=24 November 2013|access-date=2 December 2013}}

An official music video promoting the song was released onto YouTube on 9 October 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTDKLjdok4 |title=Bastille - Of The Night |publisher=YouTube |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=14 October 2013}} It was directed by Dave Ma (who has previously worked with Foals, Ghostpoet and Delphic), and stars American actor James Russo (Once Upon a Time in America, Django Unchained) as the main protagonist,{{cite news|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/84908/bastille-to-re-release-bad-blood-with-new-tracks-and-new-single |title=Bastille to re-release Bad Blood with new tracks and new single |first=Andrew |last=Trendell |work=Gigwise |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=14 October 2013}} a Los Angeles police detective who visits several crime scenes, including a woman shot at a motel, a woman overdosed on pills, a man drowned in a pool, a woman asphyxiated in a car trunk, a store clerk shot during a robbery, and a woman in a bathroom with her throat slashed. The corpses sing along with the music (it is heavily implied that the police detective is going crazy, hallucinating seeing the corpses sing, with their voices lip-synced). At one point the band members are seen conversing with the police, then told to face the wall and put their hands on their heads, while an officer searches them.{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTDKLjdok4|title = Bastille - Of The Night (Official Music Video)|date = 9 October 2013|access-date = 2 June 2015|website = YouTube|publisher = Virgin Records|last = BastilleVEVO}} The video ends with the police detective lying on the floor of a bathroom, singing along with the last few lines of the song. The camera pans out to reveal he has slashed his wrists. Mike Wass of Idolator called the video "quite possibly the most depressing video of the year."

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;Digital download

1. "Of the Night" – 3:34

;Digital download (EP)

1. "Of the Night" – 3:34
2. "Oblivion" (Live from Capitol Studios) – 3:08
3. "Of the Night" (MNEK Remix) – 4:38
4. "Of the Night" (Icarus Remix) – 5:20
5. "Of the Night" (Kove Remix) – 6:15
6. "Of the Night" (music video) – 3:51

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;CD maxi single

1. "Of the Night" – 3:34
2. "Of the Night" (MNEK Remix) – 4:38

;10" vinyl (limited to 1,000 copies)

;;Side A

1. "Of the Night" – 3:34
2. "Of the Night" (MNEK Remix) – 4:38

;;Side B

1. "Oblivion" (Live from Capitol Studios) – 3:08
2. "Of the Night" (Icarus Remix) – 5:20

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